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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. BigObject vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Search engine

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Search engine

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.22
Rank	#302	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

bigobject.io

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

docs.bigobject.io

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Amazon

Cambridge Semantics

BigObject, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

2018

2015

2003

Current release

2.3, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users and roles

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Recent citations in the news

Transition from Amazon CloudSearch to Amazon OpenSearch Service
25 July 2024, AWS Blog

AWS to discontinue Cloud9, CodeCommit, CloudSearch and several other services
31 July 2024, Neowin

AWS is quietly killing off some services under its new CEO
31 July 2024, The Stack

Amazon CloudSearch – Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month
12 April 2012, AWS Blog

Amazon Takes On Google And Microsoft With CloudSearch
16 April 2012, Forbes

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15 April 2019, InfoWorld

Cambridge Semantics Fits AnzoGraph DB with More Speed, Free Access
23 January 2020, Solutions Review

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8 February 2019, Towards Data Science

Cambridge Semantics Unveils AnzoGraph DB with Geospatial Analytics
19 June 2020, Solutions Review

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1 December 2023, EnterpriseAI

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